(Subscription required) Eumi K. Lee’s confirmation, delayed due to the death of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and opposition from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was approved on strictly partisan lines.
A Sacramento judge upheld a decision by California’s water regulator to cut back agricultural and municipal water use from the San Joaquin River. The decision could lend support for future regulations in the rest of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta system.
Washington becomes only the second state to officially approve alternatives to the bar, following its southern neighbor, Oregon, which is set to make the change in May.
(Subscription required) The bar will also ask the Legislature to approve a new billing model that will charge lawyers annual licensing fees tied to their occupations.